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It doe work better this way, Bill. Usually it should come as it happens, but you’ve worked the lines well… Doug > On Dec 6, 2016, at 7:43 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Good advice, Andrew, I think. Here's swinging version 2. Hope the spacings > stay the same as on my page. > > Bill > > Monkey Bars 2 > > Queue up at recess and lunch > Get ready for > swinging action > Many options available > > Fourers for the fearless > swing-dangling from > one clinging hand > skipping two intervening bars > investing fully in reaching that fourth bar with your other outstretched > hand > even at risk of your head > bobbing up to hit an intervener > > Momentum the trick > so from the top rung > of the blue-grey metal ladder > lean out > to the > third bar > grip > then let her rip > hips and legs adding propulsion > > And don't stop there > maintain momentum > until swing-off > at other end > > Thing is you had to be of a size > to pull off fourers > grade five or six > Three-ers were all most could stretch to > in grade four > Two-ers were piddlers > but exciting in their way > ground being > so far below > when you are that small > > Monkey bar magic > That rush of created wind > playground chatter sounds changing > as you w h i z z by > no longer > earthbound > > bw > 7.12.16 > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 at 11:34 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> The lines are a bit rigid, stuck to the left hand margin as they are. Give >> >> the page more flight and energy by staggering the lines ... Just a thought: >> >> the page is your playground. (As Duke said, 'It don't mean a thing if it >> >> ain't got that swing!') >> >> >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> On 7 December 2016 at 07:41, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Queue up at recess and lunch >> >>> Get ready for swinging action >> >>> Many options available >> >>> >> >>> Fourers for the fearless >> >>> swing-dangling from one clinging hand >> >>> skipping two intervening bars >> >>> investing fully in reaching that fourth bar with your other outstretched >> >>> hand >> >>> even at risk of your head >> >>> bobbing up to hit an intervener >> >>> >> >>> Momentum the trick >> >>> so from the top rung >> >>> of the blue-grey metal ladder lean out >> >>> to the third bar >> >>> grip >> >>> then let her rip >> >>> hips and legs >> >>> adding propulsion >> >>> >> >>> And don't stop there >> >>> maintain momentum >> >>> until swing-off at other end >> >>> >> >>> Thing is you had to be of a size >> >>> to pull off fourers >> >>> grade five or six >> >>> Three-ers were all most could stretch to >> >>> in grade four >> >>> Two-ers were piddlers >> >>> but exciting in their way >> >>> ground being so far below >> >>> when you are that small >> >>> >> >>> Monkey bar magic >> >>> That rush of created wind >> >>> playground chatter sounds changing >> >>> as you whizz by >> >>> no longer earthbound >> >>> >> >>> bw >> >>> 6.12.16 >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Andrew >> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ >> >> Books available through Walleah Press >> >> http://walleahpress.com.au >> >> Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). Venerable Optimist He saw the dark as a ragged garment spread out to air. Through its rents and moth-holes the silver light came pouring. Denise Levertov